...John A. Pitcher COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2003 CHAUCER'S WOLF: EXEMPLARY VIOLENCE IN THE PHYSICIAN'S TALE JOHN A. PITCHER, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA Within The Canterbury Tales, the beheading of Virginia by her father, Vir- ginius, represents a kind...

...Abraham Fuks; Martin Kreiswirth; Donald Boudreau; Tabitha Sparks The stories that develop between physician and patient are an important aspect of what has been described as narrative medicine. These stories are unique forms of narrative in that they are jointly constructed and enable...

... reason,” the chief example of which is the seasoned, successful physician. To this end, the article advocates the inclusion of the study of narrative and narrative knowledge in the training and practices of physicians. © 2011 by University of Oklahoma 2011 Works Cited Allison Dorothy...

... The dying think that they will live / The healthy think they are dying — Glenn Colquhoun, Playing God A physician/poet wrote the words in the epigraph above. Showing through is his frustration that the healthy seem unable to focus...

...- lished versions of their essays. Listed below are all the corrections that have been brought to our attention to date. Errata in John Pitcher, "Chaucer's Wolf: Exemplary Violence in The Physician's Tale" p.l: line 3 should read " The Physician's Tale" p.l: last line should read...

... to physicians bodily felt emotions that are inchoate and otherwise not easily rendered by literal communication. Simply put, without metaphor it is difficult to adequately render the emotional richness and complexity of our lived experiences as told stories, especially in moments of crisis and distress...

... distinguishing research from treatment. Sontag (1977) noted not only that we are in a “war on cancer” but also that uniformed physicians use an increasingly sophisticated and expensive armamentarium to try to destroy the enemy; patients have become brave fighters and their bodies the battlefield...

....” In On Metaphor , edited by Sacks Sheldon , 1 – 10 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University . “The Program in Narrative Medicine.” Last modified May 20 , 2011 . www.narrativemedicine.org/index.html . Combs Gene Freedman...

... that their infant was brain- dead (“Your child is just a vegetable this was not, legally speaking, the situation. Dr. Jewett, a senior physician on staff at the hospital, spoke about the complexities of this case. He made it clear that the hospital would very likely have taken legal action against the parents...

... grandmother's attic. What is less known is that the master from whom she was hiding, Dr. James Norcom (referred to as Dr. Flint in the text), was a private pupil of the Eighteenth-Centu- ry physician and founder of the modern penitentiary, Dr. Benjamin Rush. FROM SLAVERY...

.... 152. 16. At this time European surgeons dealt with external treatments, and physicians focused on internal ones. Although the status of the former was on the rise, the latter were considered more highly qualified and usually occupied posts at universities. Surgeons, some of whom were also bar...

... Atwood’s story “Hair- ball.” The protagonist names and talks to the tumor, envisioning it as “her warped child, taking its revenge” — even after the physician discounts her speculative narrative of its origin as a “child, a fertilized egg that escaped somehow and got to the wrong place” (1991, 45...

... THE GOTHIC SUBLIME IN TO THE LIGHTHOUSE 131 Philippe Pinel and William Tuke, French and British physicians laid the founda- tions of modern psychology in close conjunction with visual artists, including most famously photographers.4 Hugh W. Diamond’s...

... and in constructing laboratories. Many royalists and "neuters" also contributed to the proliferation of laboratories in England in the midcentury.3 Charles Web- ster notes that the College of Physicians and the Apothecaries' Society, neither particularly known for Puritanism nor Parliamentary leanings, found...

...” (68). The story’s conclusion shifts its view to describe the scientist- physicians’ observation and interpretation of events. Under the microscope where people can see him, the hero, like his enemy, is no more than a “thing.” In the early 1930s, on the cusp of the antibiotic age, white...

... of institution folded back into the formal concerns and vocational missions of editors and professors; they wrote textbooks and men- tored graduate students a task of self- justification fit for modernists. If Wal- lace Stevens s job as an insurance executive and William Carlos Williams s as a physician meant...

..., not only to ideas or even feel- ings, but to the language that delivers and gives them surprising shapes. Consid- ering word choices, phrasing, tone, musicality, and variations can gradually and deeply sensitize physicians to patients’ efforts to find “a way of putting it,” even though, as T. S. Eliot...

.... Despite its detective thrust, the narrative creates more secrets than it resolves. When Robert's physician rec- ommends Lady Audley's committal, he does so with the promise that, "whatever secrets she may have will be secrets forever" (386). In the subsequent chapter, which is titled "Buried Alive...

... unforgiving satire with an unholy energy last seen in the work of his close intellectual ancestor François Rabelais, a monk and physician who initially embraced the enthusiasm of Calvinism only to turn furiously against its self-­righteousness. But why stop...

... And the discursive difficulty interdisciplinarians face today seems to be not much different from the tension Debra Journet describes as inherent in the "bound- ary rhetoric" of an interdisciplinarian physician who lived and worked in the first half of the twentieth century. An eminent researcher, S.E. Jelliffe...